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Approved at the December 9, 2015 Commission Meeting COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY MINUTES OF COMMISSION MEETING PCCD BUILDING 3101 NORTH FRONT STREET HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA September 9, 2015 Before: Josh Shapiro, Esq., Chairman James E. Anderson, Commissioner Mark H. Bergstrom, Commissioner Philip Damiani, Commissioner Thomas Darr, Commissioner John P. Delaney, Jr., Esq., Commissioner Honorable Elizabeth Doyle, Commissioner Honorable David W. Heckler, Commissioner Honorable Curtis Jones, Jr., Commissioner Chief Thomas R. King, Commissioner Sheriff Bob Kolar, Commissioner Dennis R. Marion, for Honorable Ted Dallas, Commissioner Honorable Edward M. Marsico, Jr., Commissioner Honorable Matthew B. McConnell, Commissioner (via conference call) Dr. Edward B. Michalik, Jr., Commissioner Honorable Joseph A. Petrarca, Commissioner James J. Rieland, Commissioner Delilah Rumburg, Commissioner Sean R. Ryan, Commissioner Michael A. Schwartz, Esq., Commissioner Keith Snyder, Commissioner Jennifer R. Storm, Commissioner Honorable Gary Tennis, Commissioner James E. Turner, Commissioner John Tuttle, Commissioner Honorable Michael Vereb, Commissioner Dr. David W. Volkman, for Honorable Pedro Rivera, Commissioner Honorable Randy Vulakovich, Commissioner (via conference call) Honorable William F. Ward, Commissioner Christine Wechsler, Esq., Commissioner Michele Minor Wolf, Commissioner Honorable John A. Zottola, Commissioner 1 Guests Bruce Beemer, Office of the Attorney General Lieutenant Colonel Bivens, Pennsylvania State Police Raymond McGarry Jerry Spangler, attending with Secretary Tennis Staff Linda Rosenberg, Executive Director Kirsten Kenyon, Director, Office of Research, Evaluation and Strategic Policy Development Robert Merwine, Director, Office of Criminal Justice System Improvements Derin Myers, Director, Office of Financial Management and Administration Lynn Shiner, Director, Office of Victims’ Services John Pfau, Manager, Bureau of Training Services Carolyn DeLaurentis, Acting Chief Counsel Bob Ardner Jeffrey Blystone Kathy Buckley Danielle Chubb Christina Cosgrove Rooks Chris Epoca Karri Hull Holly Koppenhaver Matthew Leonard Randi Lorah Luanne Melia Kim Nelson Robert Orth Charla Plaines Marcy Szumanski Jackie Weaknecht 2 Chairman Shapiro called the September 9, 2015 meeting of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) to order at 10:02 a.m. A quorum of members was present. Pennsylvania Representative Michael Vereb and Philadelphia City Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. were sworn in as new Commissioners by Commissioner Zottola. The first order of business was to review the Minutes from the June 10, 2015 Meeting. Commissioner Darr made a motion to approve the minutes from the June 10, 2015 meeting as submitted. Commissioner Jones seconded the motion and the minutes were approved by unanimous vote. The next item on the agenda was the Chairman’s Report. Chairman Shapiro introduced and welcomed the two newest members of the Commission, Commissioners Jones and Vereb. Chairman Shapiro announced the newly established Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Executive Policy Board (LEEP) which was created so there will be a joint voice of law enforcement experts at the highest possible level in the Commonwealth. The initial meeting of LEEP will be held October 28th at the Governor’s Residence. The Commission will be kept informed of the work of the Board and any Commissioners interested in learning more or participating on an ad hoc basis are welcomed. At the last meeting, Commissioner Storm discussed an app for victims. Since then, the Governor’s Office of Transformation, Innovation, Modernization and Efficiency (GO-TIME) has selected PCCD staff to work with a student team at Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) to develop the app before the end of the year. Chairman Shapiro said this will help folks reach out to the victims’ organizations doing so much good work in Pennsylvania. Any feedback is welcomed. Chairman Shapiro said the first round of Justice Reinvestment (JRI) was completed approximately four years ago and the process of expanding upon JRI has recently gotten underway. The Council of State Governments (CSG) and the Pew Research Center will provide resources to sustain the work and to offset the costs borne by the Commonwealth. In order to qualify for this funding all the major leaders of the Commonwealth were required to sign off. JRI will hopefully be kicked off later this year if Pennsylvania is selected. JRI is an important initiative from both the budgetary and criminal justice standpoint and will help ensure the Commonwealth is moving forward in a thoughtful, inclusive, and progressive manner. He will keep the Commission informed as this moves forward. Chairman Shapiro said there is not much to report in terms of funding for the 2015/2016 budget, although PCCD is thinking ahead to future funding initiatives. Linda Rosenberg and her team recently met with Pennsylvania Director of Planning and Policy John Hanger to discuss areas for increased state funding including: expansion of County Intermediate Punishment (IP); implementation of county pre-trial diversionary programs; and implementation of priorities developed through county Reentry Coalition planning. Chairman Shapiro said conversations with Governor Wolf’s administration and both the House and Senate leadership have been very positive, and PCCD is making an effort to ensure that the things it asks for and does are bringing together broad bipartisan coalitions. Chairman Shapiro discussed some of the work that has been going on in the counties. The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP) Conference was held in Allegheny County last month and Chairman Shapiro had the opportunity to address the group. CCAP has been integrally involved in the work done at PCCD, and the counties, through the County Justice Advisory Boards (CJABs), have demonstrated increasing interest in engaging with PCCD. One significant area of interest is dealing with the heroin and opioid overdose issue. The counties are all grappling with this and while great work has been done by many different agencies and organizations there is a lack of a coordinated strategy to bring it all together. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary Ted Dallas recently said that the heroin and opioid overdose is now second only to heart disease as the highest killer in Pennsylvania. PCCD is working to organize a conference to create a coordinated response. 3 Commissioner Tennis noted that to date, municipal police have saved over 300 lives using Naloxone. Because the current crisis is rooted in the over-prescription of opioids, thanks is also due to the National Guard which started picking up prescription opioids from drop boxes in February. So far over 20,000 pounds in prescription drugs have been collected and an estimated one third is opioids. In 2014, the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) completed three sets of prescribing guidelines and an additional four sets are currently being developed. Chairman Shapiro said the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) recently held their annual conference in Atlanta and the 2015 President’s Award for Excellence in Justice Policy was accepted by Linda Rosenberg on behalf of PCCD for the work the CJABs are doing across Pennsylvania. Finally, Chairman Shapiro said PCCD has been working on its Strategic Plan. The process began by going back to the old plan and requesting input from all the advisory committees. The advisory committee Chairs and PCCD staff met twice to modify the plan. The goal was to create a short document, which identifies the key issues for the agency as a reference point for the committees and the Commission as they make funding decisions. Consideration and approval of the Strategic Plan will be the final action item at today’s meeting. Commissioner Bergstrom distributed a handout on the work the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing (PCS) has completed on risk assessment. In 2010 PCS was mandated to develop a risk assessment instrument for use at sentencing. The project consists of two tasks. The first task is the development of a reliable, automated instrument to be used prior to sentencing for all cases. The tool is limited to risk assessment and does not consider need. The second task is the determination of how to best use the tool. The legislation outlined several options and PCS chose to do a quasi-replication of what Virginia did although there are several differences including the scope and scale of instrument use. PCS is now working through how risk should be incorporated into the sentencing guidelines and welcomes any feedback. Commissioner Bergstrom invited anyone with interest to attend a PCS meeting or one of the public hearings. Secretary Tennis said Pennsylvania has the best Driving Under the Influence (DUI) treatment law in the country. If an individual has a second or subsequent DUI, a high blood alcohol content (BAC) DUI, or seems to have a possible drug or alcohol problem, a full assessment and completed treatment with clinical integrity must be imposed as conditions of parole. Judges are mandated to impose the maximum possible time on the back end of the sentence to increase the time of supervision and allow the individual to participate in treatment and move forward with their recovery. The law also requires that the number of individuals going to treatment and the programs in which they participate must be reported to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
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